A Tree Planting Frenzy For World Environment Day

We’re excited to report that this years Corporate Tree Planting Challenge, in celebration of World Environment Day, was a huge success with more locations, more teams and more impact than ever before! Held on Friday the 9th June in Wellington and Auckland and in sites across Australia on the 2nd June, it was a tree planting frenzy of 56 teams.

The competition was fierce in New Zealand, with 10 teams competing to plant the greatest amount of native grasses, shrubs and trees as they could, within a two hour period. Our corporate green thumbs from Bridgestone (two teams), Lion, Huawei and 2 degrees planted approximately 1,670 native plants at Whenua Rangatira in Auckland. In Wellington, Lion, Landcorp, Spark, Contact Energy and Wellington City Council put almost 2,000 trees in the ground on Mt. Victoria.

“Our corporate teams have helped to achieve real, on-ground outcomes in their local community, complementing the work that Conservation Volunteers undertakes every day. Their participation has also assisted us in raising funds to support this work ongoing. We are very pleased with the environmental outcomes from this year’s event and can’t wait to have everyone back again next year” says Siobhan O’Grady, Conservation Volunteers Corporate Partnership Manager.

Congratulations to the following teams who took away the winning title for their site by providing both quality and quantity in their planting: